Meta-Index for Non-Profit Organizations

The page you are looking at right now is The Meta-Index of Non-profit Organizations on the Web, formerly run by Ellen Spertus. If you wish to have a listing included in this page, please send http addresses and descriptions of Directories and Indices to me (ptavern@acpub.duke.edu (Peter Tavernise)) from now on. State clearly that the listing is a directory/index.

If you have an single non-profit site to list that is not a directory or non-profit resource, submit it to the Philanthropy Index.

Contents

• Other general lists of non-profit organizations
• Information for nonprofit organizations and activists
• Human Rights
• Civil Liberties and Politics
• Health and Human Services (including Relief and Development)
• Environmental Issues and Animal Rights
• Miscellaneous

• Nonprofit organizations on the Internet (with inlined images or without)
• The Internet Nonprofit Center
• Yahoo's list of public interest groups
• Phillip A. Walker's Nonprofit Resources Catalogue: (excellent)
• Impact Online's profile of non-profits at its site and on the Web
• Millennium Communications Group's lists of organizations and initiatives
• America's Charities
• JXM's Agitprop & Social Issues Page
• The National Empowerment Center
• EINet Galaxy's information on charity and community service
• River of Hope Coalition is a multimedia home for non-profit organizations.
• The Contact Center Network's aim is to create and support a network of community-based centers that will link, serve, and strengthen individuals and organizations working to build a better world.
• CyberQueer's page on building bridges and connecting with others.
• INTAC Access Corporation maintains a Public Service Venue.
• Virtual Library Non-Profit listings
• The World's (Software Tool and Die's) Nonprofit Archive.
• The FAQ for soc.org.service-clubs.misc
• Lists of progressive organizations
  • What's New in Activism Online
  • The Institute for Global Communications's guide to progressive organizations and resources
  • The Progressive Pages
  • Progressive and Radical Political Resources, part of Jason Truesdell's Progress Pages
  • Friends Just Peace Institute's collection of links on organizations devoted to peace and social justice
  • VoteSmart a national, non-profit, non-partisan voter information organization. We provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates, elected officials, and issues that concern voters most.
  • Nonprofit groups at Lollapalooza
• Government and Quasi-Governmental Organizations
  • Political Resources on the Net (Parties, Movements, Organizations & Governments) Index of political sites on the Net, grouped by country. Includes more than 300 links to parties, movements, international organizations and governments. Or go directly to the USA political parties section.
  • The Virtual Reference Desk includes a list of United States governmental and quasi-governmental gophers.
  • United Nations and other international organizations is a collection of links to many UN and related information sources maintained by UNDCP.
• Regional lists
  • Bay Area Volunteer Information Center
  • IPR Net Information service on Puerto Rican issues.
• International or non-U.S. organizations
  • Solidarity in Italy: information, addresses, events and meetings of voluntary organizations in Italy.
  • Comunicación; per a la Cooperación; promotes the use of electronic communication among activists. Most of the information is in Spanish.
  • The International Service Agencies provide information about their 55 affiliated groups, whose concerns are children, education, hunger relief, medical care, refugees/disaster relief, and job creation/economic aid.

• The Foundation Center
• YOUTH AND CHILDRENS NET--NATIONAL CHILDRENS COALITION is a very comprehensive series of pages of groups that work for and with children and teens and links to advocacy and other resources, with a national hotline.
• Phillip A. Walker's General Nonprofit Resources
• Empower Web a major Web site by and about non-profit organizations, researching and funding, how to write letters of intent and grant proposals, working with volunteers, various forms of direct mail and tele-fundraising efforts and publications, networking with other non-profits and much more.
• Putnam Barber's information for nonprofits and the nonprofit FAQ (slow links)
• Charities USA An umbrella group with an extensive index of national charitable organizations ranging from Animal Rights to World Service Organizations.
• The National Center for Nonprofit Boards lists other resources for nonprofit management.
• Northern New Mexico Charitable Organizations and Resources
• A Guide to Internet Resources for Non-Profit Public Service Organizations
• UK Fundraising is a resource for UK nonprofit/charity fundraisers.
• Kai's Home Page
• Millennium Communications Group
• Lead... or Leave's information links for activists
• EINet Galaxy's information on grants.
• The English Server has a lot of information on government, law, and society.
• Kathy Watkins' guide for Activists on the Net
• Munn Heydorn maintains a list of Internet Resources for Not-for-Profits in Housing and Human Services
• Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
• Nova-Links' page on grants and funding
• The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

• General Human Rights
  • PeaceNet's Human Rights Page
  • The Human Rights Home Page contains information about human rights and links to human rights organizations.
  • The International Student Festival in Trondheim's human rights information includes links to many documents and gophers with human rights information.
  • Yahoo's list on human rights.
  • Human Rights files accessible through Essex.
  • Human rights violations in East Timor.
  • The Human Rights gopher.
• Gay Rights
  • The Queer Resources Directory
  • GLAAD the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
  • Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual stuff
  • IGC's Lesbian, Bi, Gay resource page
  • The Multicultural Bisexual Lesbian Gay Alliance's list of Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Queer Information Servers
  • L/G/B/Ts on the WWW, maintained by And Justice for All
  • Yahoo's list of homosexual and bisexual resources
• Prisoners' Rights
  • IGC's list of resources on prison issues
  • The Prison Law Page maintains a directory of prison and criminal justice sites, as well as offering information relating to California prisons and prisoners. It is maintained by a nonprofit law office.
  • Peter Jaques' excellent prison-related resources
  • The Prison Ethnography Archive Project contains publications written by prisoners on prison.
  • Cyberzine's prison links
• Women's Rights and Issues
  • WomensNet, a nonprofit online service and resource for those concerned with women's rights, from the Institute for Global Communications
  • Australian Institute For Women's Research and Policy
  • CARAL's page on Abortion & Reproductive Rights Internet Resources
  • The Pro-choice page
  • LifeLinks
  • Yahoo's list on abortion issues
  • Abortion Rights & Other Feminist Issues Web
  • Sarah Stapleton-Gray's guide to resources on the internet for the active feminist
  • Jim Mansfield's Feminism and Women's Resources
  • Laura's Feminism and Gender Issues page
• Abuse and Assault
  • Karra's Korner
  • No More Victims
  • SafetyNet: Domestic Violence Resources.
  • Explore the Assault Prevention Information Network to discover new ways to increase your personal safety.
  • Blain Nelson's Abuse Pages
• Men's Rights and Issues
  • M.E.N. Magazine
  • Friends of Choice for Men
  • David Throop's lists of resources on men's issues and his false rape reports index.
• Memorial Organizations
  • The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum lists the member organizations of The Association of Holocaust Organizations.
  • The Anne Frank WWW site and its Holocaust Index.

• EFF's Activism and Government Archive.
• Campaign Central
• Citizen's Guide to Internet Resources on the Rights of Americans.
• Justice on Campus Project at Cornell.
• Censorship and Media Bias
  • Michael Ernst's Media Watchdog page.
  • Computers and Academic Freedom Archive.
  • Project Censored explores and publicizes the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
  • The File Room is an illustrated archive on censorship which you can browse and update.
• Politics
  • Turn Left
  • Justin Hall's entertaining Politix Page
  • The Politics Page
  • Critiques Of Libertarianism.
  • Charlotte's WWWeb, list of resources and information about how our government works and what our legislators are doing.
  • The Political Participation Project.
  • The Right Side of the Web is a directory of places and resources on the Net for what most people would call the conservative point of view.
  • The E-Text Archive points to a large collection on politics.
  • Spunk Press has a contact list of interest to anarchists.
• Guns
  • Scott W. Ostrander's excellent Firearms & Liberty page.
  • rec.guns FAQ Home Page
• On-line Issues
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides Outposts on the Electronic Frontier, a list of international, national, regional, and local groups supporting the online community.
  • EFF board member and Cygnus Support co-founder John Gilmore has set up a page on cryptography export issues.
  • WIRED magazine (a for-profit) has made available an Online Clipper Archive, to encourage people to learn more about Clipper and to contact their congressional representatives.
  • Cypherpunks also provides information related to security, cryptography, and privacy, as well as a list of sites of interest to cypherpunks.
  • Lists of publicly accessible networks
    • The WELL has a list of publicly accessible networks.
    • The Free-Nets Home Page lists free-net access points, mailing lists, government documents, and more.

• DeafNet
• EINet Galaxy maintains information on disabilities.
• YMCA resource index from the Y in San Diego County.
• The Zen Hospice Project maintains a list of pointers on AIDS, Alzheimer's Disease, Death and Dying.
• Families and Children
  • Children Now's list of on-line resources on children's issues
  • International Scouting Information on the World Wide Web
  • Information on Adoption
• Relief and Development
  • OneWorld Online's partner organizations
  • 54 Ways You Can Help The Homeless, a hyper-book by Rabbi Charles A. Kroloff.
  • ReliefNet maintains a list of humanitarian organizations around the world.
  • Information about the crisis in Rwanda and the associated humanitarian relief effort is available.
  • Cohousing (alternative housing) information
  • World Hunger Year

• Environment
  • The EnviroWeb maintains a comprehensive listing of all environmental organizations on the Internet.
  • EcoNet, a nonprofit online service and resource for organizations and activists. Includes links to environmental organizations and actions.
  • Friends of the Earth maintains a list of environmental information services on the internet.
  • Nick Fiddes's information on environmental activism and environmental information.
  • CREST Guide to Alternative Energy Resources on Internet.
• Animal Rights
  • Yahoo's list on animal rights.
  • Animal Rights Resource Site
  • The WWW Virtual Library: Sumeria/Animal rights

• IMISO, a global forum for international student organisations, lists a large number of international student organisations.
• Working Assets Long Distance
• c@use & effect: using whatever we've got to make the world more economically just and environmentally sound.